Without a Hero (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Divorce, Existentialism, Heroes or heroism, Consumers or consumer rights, Hunting or hunters, Comedy, Trucks
Looking like a punk rocker but hailing from the sleepy Hudson River town of Peekskill, New York, T. Coraghessan Boyle writes fiction that oddly but brilliantly combines wild imagination and old-fashioned storytelling. After (barely) graduating from Potsdam State University, Boyle followed his literary heroes John Gardner and Robert Coover to the Iowa Writers Workshop. There, under the direction of John Irving, he wrote many of the stories collected in his first book, Descent of Man (1979), while, like Gardner, completing a Ph.D. in English literature.
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